Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 5th grader is wondering how HB is different from our home MS. Is there anywhere that explains this to students?

students can leave campus on their own, the school population is capped and stays pretty much the same through middle and high school, and they work on an independent project with a teacher mentor every year.

core curriculum is same local middle.

generally you get more involved parents because it requires an active action and logistics to apply and attend a lottery school like HB.

No, HB students do not work on an independent project every year with a teacher mentor.

- HB parent

HB does do some independent work differently, why not explain it?

Anonymous wrote:In case any HB parents come back.... what made HB appealing to your kids? I have a child who is at risk of being bullied for reasons I don't want to state here, and have heard HB is a more welcoming envt than some of the larger middle schools. I'm just not sure how our child would feel having to make new friends given their circumstances.

Yes I do think the environment is more welcoming at HB than a typical middle school, having had one kid at HB and another at one of the regular middle schools.

As for making new friends in 6th, the kids are all in the same boat since no one knows more than a couple of other kids going in. The school does a really good job on the social emotional and community building angle.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 5th grader is wondering how HB is different from our home MS. Is there anywhere that explains this to students?

students can leave campus on their own, the school population is capped and stays pretty much the same through middle and high school, and they work on an independent project with a teacher mentor every year.

core curriculum is same local middle.

generally you get more involved parents because it requires an active action and logistics to apply and attend a lottery school like HB.

No, HB students do not work on an independent project every year with a teacher mentor.

- HB parent

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Also, I'm pretty sure you can attend your neighborhood high school if a particular course is not offered at HB

Not true.
-HB parent

Okay, but fact still remains each of the high schools over different set of AP/IB/Intensified

HB is very small. There are about 100-120 kids per grade in high school. That limits the classes they can offer because there aren’t enough students. There are no intensified classes outside of math. All other subjects are regular or AP. Sometimes AP and regular classes are together in the same class and the AP kids just get more work (very common in English). For some the size can probably be stifling. It’s been a good for for my kid. But my other kid is a W-L and thriving there too.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In case any HB parents come back.... what made HB appealing to your kids? I have a child who is at risk of being bullied for reasons I don't want to state here, and have heard HB is a more welcoming envt than some of the larger middle schools. I'm just not sure how our child would feel having to make new friends given their circumstances.

My kid wanted to go there to: 1) sleep in later, and 2) be allowed to walk to 7-Eleven.

I don't know about the environment being welcoming, he's a teenager who doesn't say much, but he hasn't talked at all about any bullying issues. I asked the other day if he ever sees fights at school and he said no. I think it's just a much smaller environment.

Haha, PP here.... that's all my kid has heard too and its very enticing.

Anonymous wrote:In case any HB parents come back.... what made HB appealing to your kids? I have a child who is at risk of being bullied for reasons I don't want to state here, and have heard HB is a more welcoming envt than some of the larger middle schools. I'm just not sure how our child would feel having to make new friends given their circumstances.

My kid wanted to go there to: 1) sleep in later, and 2) be allowed to walk to 7-Eleven.

I don't know about the environment being welcoming, he's a teenager who doesn't say much, but he hasn't talked at all about any bullying issues. I asked the other day if he ever sees fights at school and he said no. I think it's just a much smaller environment.

In case any HB parents come back.... what made HB appealing to your kids? I have a child who is at risk of being bullied for reasons I don't want to state here, and have heard HB is a more welcoming envt than some of the larger middle schools. I'm just not sure how our child would feel having to make new friends given their circumstances.

Anonymous wrote:

Also, I'm pretty sure you can attend your neighborhood high school if a particular course is not offered at HB

Not true.
-HB parent

Okay, but fact still remains each of the high schools over different set of AP/IB/Intensified

Also, I'm pretty sure you can attend your neighborhood high school if a particular course is not offered at HB

Not true.
-HB parent

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 5th grader is wondering how HB is different from our home MS. Is there anywhere that explains this to students?

students can leave campus on their own, the school population is capped and stays pretty much the same through middle and high school, and they work on an independent project with a teacher mentor every year.

core curriculum is same local middle.

generally you get more involved parents because it requires an active action and logistics to apply and attend a lottery school like HB.

It's not entirely correct to say the core curriculum is the same at HB. Obviously you can take all of the classes you need to graduate, but HB has more limited options for electives and intensified/AP classes than APS neighborhood secondary schools.

That's literally what core curriculum means. Its not like all APS high schools offer the same options for electives, intensified, AP/IB courses within each other.

Also, I'm pretty sure you can attend your neighborhood high school if a particular course is not offered at HB.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 5th grader is wondering how HB is different from our home MS. Is there anywhere that explains this to students?

students can leave campus on their own, the school population is capped and stays pretty much the same through middle and high school, and they work on an independent project with a teacher mentor every year.

core curriculum is same local middle.

generally you get more involved parents because it requires an active action and logistics to apply and attend a lottery school like HB.

It's not entirely correct to say the core curriculum is the same at HB. Obviously you can take all of the classes you need to graduate, but HB has more limited options for electives and intensified/AP classes than APS neighborhood secondary schools.

Anonymous wrote:My 5th grader is wondering how HB is different from our home MS. Is there anywhere that explains this to students?

students can leave campus on their own, the school population is capped and stays pretty much the same through middle and high school, and they work on an independent project with a teacher mentor every year.

core curriculum is same local middle.

generally you get more involved parents because it requires an active action and logistics to apply and attend a lottery school like HB.

My 5th grader is wondering how HB is different from our home MS. Is there anywhere that explains this to students?

Yes!

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